Bleep

WH04 is surely the prettiest Withhold Records release to date. Once again the artist behind the tracks here is unknown, but if anything this withholding of information allows you to focus more fully on the beautiful music within. These tracks turn away from the jungle/IDM stylings of the first three Withhold, offering up instead some lackadaisical takes on house and electro. Indeed, WH04’s opening track - graced with utilitarian title of ‘A1’ - is a near-seven-minute downtempo number which flickers and shimmers like a stargazing number from an early Nightmares On Wax album. There’s classic Detroit and Chicago to the lilts of ‘Azy’ and ‘Moving’ before WH04 closes out on ‘Cosmic Wind’, a broken-beat electro jam that channels Derek Carr.